The useless information thread

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 32,805 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Maybe they're trying to read lips.

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  • Bob_Luken
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  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,397 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:

    The Browns should have hired him as WR coach.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 24,425 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am having a craving for some crispy salty hyperbolic paraboloids.

  • ShawnOL
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    The new Smoky bacon flavor is pretty good.

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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 24,425 ✭✭✭✭✭

    our noses are in the corner off everything we look at but our brains have learned to ignore it. Same with whatever conflicts with our opinions and values.

  • peter4jc
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    @silvermouse said:
    our noses are in the corner off everything we look at but our brains have learned to ignore it. Same with whatever conflicts with our opinions and values.

    That fits with what I read this morning by Oswald Chambers, edited here for popular consumption;

    Go through the winepress where life's grapes are crushed, struggle to get at the expression you need, and a time will come when that expression will be the very wine of strength to another. If instead you say, “I’m not going to struggle to express this truth for myself; I’ll borrow what I say,” the expression will be not only of no use to you but of no use to anyone. Try to restate to yourself what you implicitly feel to be the truth, and you will have a chance to pass it on to someone else through you.

    Always make a practice of challenging your mind to think out what it accepts easily. Our position is not truly ours until we make it ours by struggling, examining, and understanding. The author who benefits you isn’t the one who tells you something you didn’t know before; it’s the one who gives expression to the truth that has been struggling for utterance inside you.

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  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,654 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2025

    You guys are deep thinkers

    Edit: for a useless information thread

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  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,484 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dirtdude said:
    You guys are deep thinkers

    Edit: for a useless information thread

    You get that wheel back on yet???

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,654 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Rdp77 said:

    @dirtdude said:
    You guys are deep thinkers

    Edit: for a useless information thread

    You get that wheel back on yet???

    Yea, both of them, I was going to put it in the things l learned on vherf but never got around to it

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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 24,425 ✭✭✭✭✭

    and -2 days to Christmas

  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,892 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2025
  • memento_mori
    memento_mori Posts: 6,040 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Picture of UK lighthouses.

  • memento_mori
    memento_mori Posts: 6,040 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Rdp77 said:

    This one has me confused

    It’s the power source nucleus 😜🤪

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,397 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Rdp77 said:

    This one has me confused

    Rivers…. Maybe??

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,484 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Vision said:

    @Rdp77 said:

    This one has me confused

    Rivers…. Maybe??

    Maybe so

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 32,805 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Moisture in the air can also disperse and absorb radio signals and laser communication links.

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  • memento_mori
    memento_mori Posts: 6,040 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fog affects ballistics too…so I’m told 🤓

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 24,425 ✭✭✭✭✭

    To say nothing about cars

    The California Highway Patrol confirms 59 vehicles were involved in the crash.
    ...
    Investigators believe fog is a factor and estimate there was between 100 to 200 feet of visibility when the crashes happened.

    https://abc7.com/post/central-california-crash-59-vehicle-pileup-forces-closure-highway-99-tulare-county-chp-says/18516648/

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 32,805 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've been in the Tule fog of the central valley of California, it's wicked bad.

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  • ShawnOL
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    People tend to drive faster in the fog. Something to do with less visual feedback of speed.

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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 24,425 ✭✭✭✭✭

    ...between 100 to 200 feet of visibility...

    I wonder how fast the traffic was moving.

    Under perfect circumstances, a passenger vehicle traveling at 55 miles per hour requires a minimum of approximately 419 feet to come to a full stop. This figure represents the shortest distance achievable under ideal conditions, which include a dry, flat road surface, good tires, and an alert driver. This distance is derived from standardized physics formulas used by safety organizations to establish minimum safety parameters. For perspective, 419 feet is longer than a standard American football field, including both end zones. This minimum number is a theoretical benchmark, representing a best-case scenario rarely replicated in day-to-day driving."

  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,654 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm jazzed about @peter4jc getting his Ancient Membership badge from ccom. Quite an accomplishment Peter, congrats

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 32,805 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats, old-timer.

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